Just what do you want?

[David Dubh]

Hi Jock
I think that there are possibly two reasons that some people don't wish to acknowledge the advice given. Mostly age gap and location. Those of us in the "new world" don't have any experience with formal wear or appropriate dress for various occasions as has been pointed out by many here already. My parents emigrated to Canada in the late 60s. When I was growing up it was always trousers and shirts ties and jackets, dresses and skirts for the ladies. I didn't get my first pair of jeans until I was probably 10. Now I'm no snob but even today I change my clothes to go to the shops after puttering around the house. We see people out and about and I swear they are wearing there pjs
Secondly I'm 50 now and spent most of my life trying not to dress like my father. My father wears loafers so I prefer brogues, my dad always took me for haircuts we got the same haircut short back and sides, when I was old enough to go my self as a teenager I grew my hair out got a perm and a pierced ear. So when you talk traditional highland civilian dress many of us may see it as being dressed just like our father which is probably why when we read your advice we are looking for ways to embellish and personalize our kilted selves. So please understand that we want to know how the highlanders wear the kilt, and if some of us gradually dress more and more like Jock Scott and less like highland wear catalogues, then the kilted community will endure as a lifestyle or as a costume society.
Just my tuppence worth